[Eug-lug] hardware query...

[dooger watts]

Seems like I recall shades of this from the miggy days when I was first 
drifting over to the pc side.  My HD formatted floppy was like 1.4 megs 
on the miggy but only 1 meg on the pc.

And hey, thanx silver for the maxtor nudge.  Always had great luck with 
their drives--all my original (and still running) miggies have maxtors.

silver wrote:
> "dooger watts" wrote:
> 
> Have read that there's a ten percent loss off the actual 500gigs in
> formatting--but this seems pretty standard. The advertised space on the 250
> claims that, formatted, there's slightly MORE than 250 gigs of space, so
> maybe they're packing a 280gig drive in there--or else they're lying.
> 
> --
> I suspect this might be related to data storage definitions commonly applied
> (but in my view, unethically applied) by HD vendors.
> 
> The colluding vendors apply decimal, as opposed to the binary definitions
> which are recommend by the ISO/IEEE (and other standards organizations) and
> which are traditionally applied when measuring RAM and other primary
> computer storage media:
> 
> Base10 (decimal):
> 1000 Bytes = KB;
> 
> Base2 (binary):
> 1024 Bytes = KB;
> 
> So when measuring a GigaByte the difference can be calculated by subtracting
> 1000^3 (to the third power) from 1024^3.
> 
> Same issue applies to defining a MegaByte, TeraByte, and on it goes.
> 
> As you can see, the larger the hard drive the more a HD vendor will
> over-represent the actual (vs. available) disk storage space (but the
> percentage diff remains the same).
> 
> I guess it could be worse. The HD vendors could have colluded on redefining
> a Byte as 7 bits. ;-)
> 
> (Also note with Windows the over-reporting issue can be exacerbated by
> slackspace overhead issues due to Windows WinOS FAT-based format schemes
> which create large clusters... this issue becomes even more pronounced when
> storing many small files).
> 
> Regards to external storage solutions for consumer (at least for Win
> installs) I have observed a high degree of satisfaction using Maxtor One
> Touch products. But they still are unable to measure your blood glucose.
> 
> And it's worthy to note with each Maxtor (and Seagate) internal hard drive
> you now receive a free copy of Acronis True Image for imaging internal and
> external hard drives. The imaging software can be used within Windows but
> best to run from a Linux based boot disk which the True Image application
> will auto create for you.
> 
> 
> 
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